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tex3mjj
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Hi there.
I have had my powerbook just over a year. My warranty ran out only a couple of months back too so I am gutted. The last couple of weeks the pb keeps shutting down unexpectedly and date changes to 1970 and especially when no adaptor is plugged in. the battery life is ran down too. from this i assumed that i needed a new battery but as a student have not had the cash to replace my battery. since then i have carried on used it in frequent spells when needed. a couple of days ago i shut it down. then a few hours later restarted it. it got to the grey apple screen and no loading circle appeared. and then a hard horrible churning noise started and it seemed that it came from the hard drive. anyway i did a hardware test and there was an error. i re-installed my software and it started and went to the desktop but the same noise occurs especially when date is getting read. it struggles to do commands. anyway. i shut it down again and restarted this but it stuck on the grey screen again. the only option b4 taking to apple is trying a reinstall and then repair any problems in disk utility or reset to factory settings by taking battery out and holding down power button for 5secs.
Does anyone have any other tips please that could solve this please,
Many thanks,
tex3mjj a.k.a. mark
I have had my powerbook just over a year. My warranty ran out only a couple of months back too so I am gutted. The last couple of weeks the pb keeps shutting down unexpectedly and date changes to 1970 and especially when no adaptor is plugged in. the battery life is ran down too. from this i assumed that i needed a new battery but as a student have not had the cash to replace my battery. since then i have carried on used it in frequent spells when needed. a couple of days ago i shut it down. then a few hours later restarted it. it got to the grey apple screen and no loading circle appeared. and then a hard horrible churning noise started and it seemed that it came from the hard drive. anyway i did a hardware test and there was an error. i re-installed my software and it started and went to the desktop but the same noise occurs especially when date is getting read. it struggles to do commands. anyway. i shut it down again and restarted this but it stuck on the grey screen again. the only option b4 taking to apple is trying a reinstall and then repair any problems in disk utility or reset to factory settings by taking battery out and holding down power button for 5secs.
Does anyone have any other tips please that could solve this please,
Many thanks,
tex3mjj a.k.a. mark
